Welcome to the Oöphoi Tribute website

This
website is a tribute to Gianluigi Gasparetti (1958–2013), the italian
ambient composer best known by the pseudonym Oöphoi.

He was perhaps best known for his role as the editor of Deep
Listenings, an Italian magazine dedicated to ambient and deep atmospheric
music, where he featured interviews with many famous ambient artists including
Steve Roach and Michael Stearns. Oöphoi music can be characterized
as being static, organic and minimalistic. It has an overall solid and
monolithic feel to it, often integrated in a meditative and spiritual
context. Created by using synths, singing bowls, flutes, and processed
voices, his recordings have relatively slight harmonic variations.

An avid music collector since his childhood Gianluigi started his own
music experiments in 1995, with a basic instrumentation, trying to explore
the shores of deep space-ambient. His first album "Three Lights At The
End Of The World", composed in 1995, was released in 1996 by italian ambient
artist Alio Die's own label, Hic
Sunt Leones.

Oophoi used traditional instruments as synths and sampling machines,
but also singing bowls, flutes, percussion (woodchimes, stones, shells,
crystal chimes) and processed voices; all his music is recorded using
analog-only devices in The
Kiva, his studio, which used to be a stall in a XV Century stone country
house in the hills of central Italy.